Apple may have a busy March with a rumored larger iPad Air, OLED iPad Pros, and new Macs

danox said:

tht said:
How they price the iPA13 will be interesting.

$600 iPA11 64GB M2 LCD
$800 iPA13 64GB M2 LCD
$900 iPP11 128GB M3 OLED
$1200 iPP13 128GB M3 OLED

The OLED has to be adding at least $100 to the prior iPP price tiers. Then there is the juxtasposition of the MBA13 w/M3 for $1100 and LCD. You could get an iPP with OLED for the same price as an MBA? Tough choice. If Apple enable unlimited multitasking, unlimited windows and Terminal.app on iPadOS, I could get by with an iPP13 as my work computer, but they aren't going to do that. So tough choice.

Then, the iPA models will surely be limited to 256GB or 512GB of storage. How many people upsell to the iPP models will determine how healthy the market of high end iPad users is. I think I'm all in on a 16GB RAM model, which probably means iPP13 1TB.

Apple is currently going thru a mini memory gate with their low end Pro MacBook laptop, 64gb and 128gb might not be enough storage space also the pricing might be a little low for M2 and M3 SOC's. Any one of them would be a great deal however, 5-7 years of use easy. I have a four year old iPad Pro 12.9 and it shows no signs of going anywhere for at least 3 more years.

There's rationale to double the base storage tiers to 128GB for the iPA and 256 GB for iPP especially if Apple opens the spigot on Stage Manager and side loading. The regular iPad probably sticks to the 64 and 256 GB storage options.

Was hard for me to include 256 for the iPP because OLEDs are going to be expensive! An iPA13 M2 8GB 128GB at $800 is cheap! Apple doesn't do cheap. The MBA13 with M1 8GB 256GB, basically a 4 year old machine next year, is still being sold at $1000. How would something like that drop to $800? Some question for the MBA13 M2? How does it drop to $800? Hence, that convinced me that iPA models will start out at 64 GB storage.

The big differences between the MBA13 and iPA13 are basically battery capacity, a capacitive touch layer, keyboard, hinge, and a touch pad. That's maybe a $100 to $200 difference. So, if the iPA13 has 128GB, I think that means $900 price point, not $800. I think a lot of users will be fine with 64GB because it will just be a web browser and streaming media machine to them.